Welcome

Choose your housing path to enter Apartment Helper.

Before you access the app, tell us whether you are looking for housing or working as a landlord.

App Store version coming soon.

Apartment Helper

Housing help, built like a guided experience

Find the right apartment path before the process finds a way to overwhelm you.

Apartment Helper turns a confusing housing process into a clearer flow. Search official listings, check voucher and subsidy math, understand Housing Connect, and move through the next step with more confidence.

0 listing sources gathered into one flow
0 calculator paths for applicants and landlords
0 guided housing help pages to reduce guesswork
Role-based path Applicants and landlords should not see the same journey.

Open the right calculators, guides, and listing paths first.

Official-first search Housing Connect, HDC, HCR, StreetEasy, and Zillow in one housing-focused flow.

Browse by borough, then open the real listing source instead of relying on a stale mirror.

Support layer Guides, voucher logic, landlord packet help, and a chat assistant.

Everything is organized to reduce panic, guesswork, and missed steps.

Affordable housing search Voucher guidance Housing Connect support Landlord packet help Eligibility tools Role-based experience

Neighborhood feel

A friendlier housing experience starts with a warmer visual world.

This front page now leans into a welcoming city morning: bright sky, homes, windows, and supportive guidance instead of a plain utility dashboard.

Morning search

Start with calm, then move into the hard housing questions.

The interface now opens with softer sky tones and a housing-first mood instead of admin-heavy visuals.

Neighborhood energy

Make apartment searching feel local, practical, and human.

Listings, subsidy math, and voucher help now sit inside a friendlier city-like scene.

Move-in momentum

Keep users feeling like housing is possible, not just procedural.

The product language stays supportive while the visuals feel brighter and more hopeful.

Housing gallery

Bring in real housing photography to make the experience feel lived in.

This gallery mixes the product interface with real apartment-search atmosphere, so the site feels closer to homes, neighborhoods, and move-in moments.

Sunlit apartment building illustration with blue sky
Homes, neighborhoods, and city blocks should feel present throughout the product.
Residential street illustration with apartment buildings
Search can feel local and human, not just transactional.
Bright apartment interior illustration with natural light
Friendly interiors reinforce the sense of possibility behind the housing process.

Start with your role

Two entry points. One housing-centered experience.

This homepage now behaves more like a product front door: fewer generic boxes, more guided routes, and clearer reasons to click into the right tool.

Applicant/Tenant

Check max collectable subsidy rent, search listings, and understand what comes next.

Open the tenant calculator, keep the income checker intact, review lease and voucher guidance, and move into Housing Connect support when you need it.

Open applicant tools Read Housing Connect help

Landlord

Estimate max approvable rent, review packet steps, and work from current standards.

Open the landlord calculator, review packet checklists, compare voucher programs, and keep the submission process organized.

Open landlord tools Ask landlord questions

Source explorer

Preview where each housing search path actually takes people.

Instead of dropping people into a blank directory, show them why each source matters, where it helps most, and where to click next.

Official affordable lotteries

Housing Connect works best when someone needs current NYC affordable housing lotteries.

Start here for current lottery openings, deadlines, and application links, then use the help pages to understand set-asides, preferences, and what happens after you apply.

Best for
Affordable housing lotteries and application tracking
Borough preview
Brooklyn-focused search launch
Open Housing Connect Read support guide
What users usually need next
  • Check whether the listing is still accepting applications.
  • Compare household setup with the listing rules.
  • Open the official site instead of relying on copied listing data.

What makes it useful

Built around real housing friction points.

Listings

Search the source of truth first.

Use role-friendly housing browsing, borough filtering, and official affordable housing links before opening broader market sites.

Go to listings
Calculators

Subsidy and voucher math without the clutter.

Open the calculator set that matches your housing role, with the opposite path hidden out of the way.

Open calculators
Assistant

Ask questions when the process stops making sense.

The assistant is already structured for a real backend and helps keep users moving instead of getting stuck.

Open assistant

Official sources

Keep one foot in guidance and one foot in the real portal.

The app helps explain the process, but the final action still happens on the right official site or listing source.

NYC Housing Connect

Search current affordable housing lotteries and go directly to the real listing detail pages.

Search lotteries

HDC Re-rentals

Review HDC-financed re-rental and waiting-list opportunities from the official HDC page.

Open HDC Re-rentals